Some seven years in the making, the Eclipse Foundation's Theia IDE project is now generally available, emerging from beta to challenge Microsoft's similar Visual Studio Code editor, with which it shares much tech.
“Why would we use a good IDE over something I don’t consider a good IDE?”
Gee, I wonder.
Intended audience, like all software, is anyone that finds it useful. VSCode is fine for a lot of things but it’s a glorified text editor, not an IDE. These two things aren’t even the same class of software.
The article says this is being positioned as a competitor to VS Code, so at least based on that I’m assuming this is editor vs. editor not editor vs. IDE. So the question remains, why would someone choose Theia as their text editor instead of VS Code? If this is instead being positioned as an IDE then the question becomes why would someone use Theia over something like IntelliJ, PyCharm, or Android Studio.
“Why would we use a good IDE over something I don’t consider a good IDE?”
Gee, I wonder.
Intended audience, like all software, is anyone that finds it useful. VSCode is fine for a lot of things but it’s a glorified text editor, not an IDE. These two things aren’t even the same class of software.
The article says this is being positioned as a competitor to VS Code, so at least based on that I’m assuming this is editor vs. editor not editor vs. IDE. So the question remains, why would someone choose Theia as their text editor instead of VS Code? If this is instead being positioned as an IDE then the question becomes why would someone use Theia over something like IntelliJ, PyCharm, or Android Studio.